Word: stickering
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...ballpark early (10 a.m.), before the gates were even open. Between the Kenmore subway stop and the bleacher gates, Sam, a friend of mine who had come all the way from South Carolina to watch the game, had already bought two Red Sox hats, a pennant, a bumper sticker, a coke and a Fenway frank. He was also appropriately dressed in a Bosox red sweater and navy blue pants. He did withstand the temptation to get the other items being sold, which ranged from buttons with a picture of the gold dust twins (Lynn and Rice) to a World Series...
...consider that the person using that power would not be [former CIA director] Dick Helms but [convicted Watergate burglar] Howard Hunt." And, he added, "the danger is that you move from the kid with the bomb to the kid with the picket sign to the kid with the bumper sticker, and so on down the line. The risk is that you slip over from a national security purpose to a political purpose. You end up with those people going into the Watergate...
...Washington last week, General Motors unveiled the U.S. auto industry's newest challenge to fast-selling imports. GM's new minicar: the Chevette, a stripped-down, two-door hatchback driven by a four-cylinder engine and sticker-priced at $2,899 (a model with a back seat costs $3,098). According to GM, soon-to-be-released Environmental Protection Agency figures will show that the Chevette gets 28 to 30 miles per gallon in city driving and 39 to 40 m.p.g. on the highway...
...Chevette's competition will not come only from imports. Last week Ford announced the Pinto Pony MPG, sticker-priced at $2,895, $4 below the Chevette and now lower than any other U.S.-built car. In an obvious slap at GM, Ford President Lee lacocca added, "The back seat comes at no extra charge...
...typical car has already risen by $1,000 since 1973. But General Motors has announced that it will raise the base prices on its 1976 models by an average of 4.4%, or about $206 per car, and other automakers are sure to follow. To keep the hike in sticker prices below last year's 8% to 9% increases, manufacturers are changing some items that were previously listed as standard equipment into extra-cost options. The auto companies are also holding down costs by minimizing changes in body design. Instead, they are offering new colors, splashy paint jobs and even...